Mandi

I don't know about you but sometimes I think it's good to try something new, something different! So that's what I did! LOL! 

I Brake for Stamps has Rick St. Dennis digis and rubber stamps in stock now and while at first I wasn't quite sure about them, they have quickly grown on me!  Not all of them~ as some are pretty scary to me--great for Halloween and for lots of my friends who like that--but I do think the girls are fun and sort of funky! (oh and I just saw some cute bears and kids and fantasy stamps in the rubber section...fun!)

So I thought what the heck, let's give one of them a try and see what I can do with them! I got Mandi as a digi to try. I think she is really a pretty funky gal--so fun to color up!

I kept this a very clean and simple card to show off the image~~didn't want anything competing with the brighter colors I used. 

Hope you have a super fabulous day!!

If all else fails-add pink, sparkle and a butterfly! 

stamps~ I Brake for Stamps-Rick St. Dennis-digi- Mandi, 
ink~ 
cardstock~ misc white, SU Basic Black,
designer paper~
other goodies~ copics, stardust pens, copic glitter pens, stickles, rhinestones, Cuttlebug Spots and Dots embossing folder,

copics used~ skin- E11, E13, E15, RV34 hair- E33, E23, E37, E27, E29, eyes- G24, G46, G28 headband/shirt- YR04, YR07, YR09  flower- Y35, Y38, R14  earrings- Y35, Y38, YR16, YR68 background- BG70, BG72, BG75

Butterfly and Berries Collage

Susana recently got in some gorgeous collage stamps from I Brake For Stamps. They are such gorgeous stamps but I'm not going to lie, they intimidate me. I know they shouldn't but they do.

Figure there's no way to get over that intimidation except by diving in and trying one out. Of course I had to have the Butterfly and Berries Collage. If I conquer it then I'm definitely ordering the Butterfly Collage set of 3 stamps.

I stamped my image with VersaFine Onyx Black and then let my image sit for a few days. Next I colored it with copics...I know I didn't color it exactly perfect but not too shabby for a first attempt.

It just seemed to cry for something more so I tried the cracked glass technique on it. (You can find a tutorial on it-here). I've tried this technique in the past and been unhappy with the results but I liked how this turned out. I wiped some brown ink over it when I was done with the embossing to try and emphasize the cracks more.
I had a hard time photographing this card, so even though you can't see the "cracked glass" it really is there, promise! You can sort of see the cracks in the first photo.

Supplies:

• card size:
• stamps: Butterfly and Berries Collage,
• paper: DCWV Mariposa Stack, SU cardstock,
• ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, SU basic brown, Embossing pad,
• others: copics, UTEE embossing powder, CTMH ribbon, bella baubles, glue dots,

Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge

I thought this sketch was a fun one that I found at Our Creative Corner this week. (yes, I LOVE sketches!)
Since the sketch had a larger image on it, I thought my Raking Leaves Shy Bears would be perfect. 

supplies:

• card size: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2
  
• stamps: Raking Leaves Shy Bears, TAC Hello Seasons,
  
• paper: Basic Grey Ambrosia, SU cardstock,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Really Rust,
  
• others: copics, CTMH ribbon,  

A Thank You Blog Hop

Today's blog hop is a very special shout-out and thank you to Della of I Brake For Stamps, who is a huge behind the scenes helper for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design~~ she makes all the stamps!!!

All of Susana's design team's blogs feature a different project featuring a stamp from Della's store, so make sure you start at Suzanne's blog , if you came here first and follow the hop all the way through to the end. For one lucky Hopper there will be a prize, but you have to leave a comment on every blog in order for a chance to win. When you're done with my blog, hop on over to Jennifer's blog to continue on your way! You will end at Susana's store blog, Follow Your Heart.

The lucky winner will be picked randomly from comments left on one of the design team members blog---but it's a mystery which blog it will be! There's also a question on the store blog, Follow Your Heart, that needs to be answered. The prize up for grabs is a brand new Ranger Heat Gun-it heats quickly and does NOT blow your embossing powder around--it's fantastic!!

Della at I Brake For Stamps is generously offering this Coupon code for Her Store ONLY!!!
coupon code: BLOGHOP for 15% off all purchases
Expires the 16th.
Only 4 days to use it so whatcha waiting for!!!

For my special card today it was so hard choosing a stamp as Della has so many wonderful ones!! I finally went with Mother and Child, as it was such an endearing, heartwarming image to me. I kept the card pretty simple to show off the image.

supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: Mother and Child,
paper: scraps,
ink: VersaFine Onyx Black,
others: prismacolors, OMS, CM cutting system, Heidi Swapp edge distresser, Heather flower soft, flowers from my stash, brads,

Flutter By Wednesday #63

Are you ready to flutter by?? I'm ready!! I am just so very happy to see so many people playing along with the Flutter By Wednesday challenge!! I just love looking at all the awesome creations!!

This week brings some fun changes to Flutter By Wednesday's. We have featured all our team members so I thought it would be fun to get them more involved now.

Each week, except the weeks with guest designers, one team member will choose the challenge for the week. How fun is that?

Our first team member challenge is by team member Kimmie! Her challenge was called Spring Fever since we're all ready to get outside and enjoy the weather. Just create an outdoorsy card with a butterfly or fairy. I'd love to see your creations! Leave a direct link to your creation in Mister Linky, (I reserve the right to remove any links not appropriate or linked to blogs vs. entries.) If you upload to SCS or PCP, please use the keyword, FBW. Can't wait to see all those fluttering cards!!

Be sure to visit all my Flutter By Team blogs and see their awesome creations! Their links are all on my sidebar and you won't be disappointed!! I feel very fortunate to have such a great team with such talent!

Finally, onto my card. Yes, I have a card this week. So sorry again that last week I didn't have one. I was inspired by numerous things for this card. One of which was team member, Cassie's, cards. She always does such elegant cards so the front in inspired by her.

supplies:
card size: 5 x 5
stamps: Susanaments Series 2, Butterfly Catcher Shy Bear,
paper:
ink: Palette Orangerie, VersaMarker, VersaFine Onyx Black,
others: Shapabilities Ladies Butterflies 2, chalk, wire, CM fine tip pens, prismacolors, OMS, lemon and orange copic glitter pens, corner rounder, stardust stickles,

Thanks for stopping by and have a happy Flutter By day!!

Femme Fluer

I've admired this stamp at Susana's store for quite a while. It is just so beautiful. Finally I had to break down and get it. I noticed she's out of stock of it right this second but I'm sure more are on their way.

I'll admit it, I was very skeptical about the shimmerz spritz but after using it on this image, I'm sold. I love how easy it is, not huge globs, dries fast and it really makes it so pretty. Yup, I'll be ordering more colors soon!!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2
stamps: Femme Fluer,
paper: Laura Ashley Traditional
ink: VersaFine Onyx Black,
others: prismacolors, OMS, orange copic glitter pen, baby's breath shimmerz spritz, border punch, Kaisercraft champagne pearls,

3 Clovers Thursday Challenge #10

3 Clovers Thursday Challenge #10 is "It's a zoo around here"~ animal images. That sounded like a lot of fun so I had to create a little somethin' for it!

As much as I love animals, and zoos (did you know I want to be a zookeeper when I grow up?) it was so hard to pick what image to use! LOL! I finally settled on this cute shy bear that I haven't inked up yet!

Wish I could look so cute with curlers in my hair! I paper pieced her headband with this Laura Ashley paper as I just love how it looks like fabric.

Supplies:

card size: 5 x5

stamps: Teacup Shy Bear,

paper: Laura Ashely Traditional,

ink: VersaFine Onyx Black,

others: prismacolors, OMS, Making Memories Lemonade Blossoms & Buttons, yellow scrappers floss, CM fine tip pen,

Try It Out Tuesday #12

This week's challenge was Gift Day! We were to create a card and two gifts with stamps and supplies from Susana's store.
Be sure to check out the store blog, Follow Your Heart, to see what the other talented design team members came up with!
I think I made this much harder than it needed to be. I thought and thought and agonized over this. Even told Susana and Suzanne I didn't think I'd participate this week but then I realized I was being silly and sat down and this is what I came up with.
On the card I cut out the teeny butterfly and popped it up on a little pop dot.
On the bookmark I used the Crinkled Chalk Technique.

Supplies:
For the card:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: Cathrine with butterfly, Lockhart Itty Bitty Butterfly on inside,
paper: some from my scraps,
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
others: copics (don't forget the awesome bundles that Susana carries here), Bazzill Bitty Blossoms, granny smith bella baubles, stardust stickles (Susana also carries LOTS of wonderful stickles!! See them here)


For the bookmark:
bookmark size: 2 x 5 1/2
stamps: Butterflies from Things With Wings sheet,
paper: Georgia Pacific, some from my scraps
ink: VersaMagic Pink Petunia, VersaMagic Sea Breeze, VersaMagic Tea Leaves,
others: Martha Stewart punch, fiber,


For the coaster book:
coasters were given to me and they are 4x4 in size
stamps: Butterflies from Things With Wings sheet
paper: some from scraps
ink: VersaMagic Pink Petunia, VersaMagic Tea Leaves, Memento Tuxedo Black,
others: corner rounder, shaped eyelets, ribbon, copics, Pixie Dust Shimmerz,

Twinkling Tuesday #15

This week we have a Temp. Twinkie, 9 year old Brittany. Her mom is Cathy, so be sure to stop by her blog and leave Brittany some love on her sketch!!

You can also check out Madelynn's blog to see who is the featured twinklette this week! We also want to welcome Heather Lee-Reppen to the Twinkling Team! Be sure to visit all the twinklettes, links are on the left <---- data-blogger-escaped-div="" data-blogger-escaped-over="" data-blogger-escaped-there="">

We'd love to have you play along! Just create a card with Brittany's sketch then leave a comment on Madelynn's blog with a link to your creation or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword MTTSC15.

Here's what I came up with~~

Supplies:

card size: 4 1/2 x 6

stamps: IBFS Fairy with rabbit, TAC Fruit of the Spirit-retired-inside

paper: Georgia Pacific,

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

others: copics, nestabilities, swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder, ribbon, CM fine tip pen, stardust stickles,

Try It Out Tuesday #4

For Susana's stores DT challenge this week we were to create a Valentine Card using a stamp from Susana's store that isn't necessarily Valentine-ish. Extra credit if we use scrappers floss-you know I love extra credit!! (ACK!! But then I got my card done and realized I had forgotten it, drat!)
Be sure to check out the store blog, Follow Your Heart, to see all the other DT members cards.
And be sure to check out Susana's Store for lots of fun!! Give-aways, new products, brand new stamp lines coming soon and all kinds of goodies!!
I had lots of ideas for this challenge as really so many of the stamps in Susana's store are so versatile but finally settled on Fairy Kids With Birds. To me it had that vintage type Valentine feel to it, although I don't do "vintage" well so here's my version~~

I "popped" two of the flowers up for some dimension.

Here you can see the shimmerz and stickles!

Ignore my thumb....stickles were still wet so I had to hold it to photograph it! LOL!

We'd love to have you play along! Just leave a comment with a link to your creation or if you upload it to SCS or PCP, please use the keyword TIOT4.

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2/x/4 1/4
stamps: Fairy Kids with birds, TAC Hedgehog Blocks-retired, Hero Arts Heart Border
paper: Georgia Pacific, cardstock,
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Palette French Lilac
others: prismacolors, OMS, stickles, shimmerz, Light Pink Dress It Uppetals, cuttlebug d'vine swirl embossing folder,

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long #2

What an amazing response we had to the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long Blog!! Wonderful! I can't wait to see what everyone creates throughout the year for holiday cards!
This week's sketch is a fun one! Be sure to check it out along with the other Christmas Stampin' Divas created on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long Blog!
Here's my card for this week! It was fun to use the shimmerz for the snowman. He looks like he's glistening in the sun. So fun!!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 5
stamps: Snowman Shy Bear, Snowflake Friends, TAC Snowflakes
paper: TAC Ultrasmooth white cardstock, cardstock from my scraps
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Real Red, Palette Prussian Blue
others: copics, prismacolors, OMS, fun flock, Martha Stewart crystal coarse glitter, Angel Wings Shimmerz, punches, frosted lace stickles,

Femme Puppy

When I first saw this stamp in Susana's store, I simply fell in love with it. Sadly it's been sitting here uninked, poor thing. So I had to remedy that tonight!!

I must admit I had a bit of an artistic challenge figuring out some of the coloring but it was fun!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: Femme Puppy , TAC Oh How-inside

paper: TAC ultrasmooth white cardstock, cardstock, paper from my scraps

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Palette Viridian Leaf, Palette Starry Night

others: copics, prismacolors, OMS, December Sky Blingz Shimmerz, Martha Stewart punch, bella embellishments

Flutter By Wednesday #40

My Flutter By Wednesday Featured Stampers really did an amazing job again this week!! I put their cards on the slide show below, to see all the details, please visit their blogs! They all really did an awesome job!!

Ashley
Cathy
Heather
Kimmie
Michelle
Tina

You'll notice that a few of them used the images from the stamp set that is in my blog candy too!
You can find all the details HERE! And you can enter each week to increase your odds of winning! Here's what you could win again, TAC Mimi collection and TAC retired Retro Butterflies stamp set!! Just create a card with a butterfly on it and leave a comment with a link to your creation! You have until midnight on January 28th to enter! If you want to see some cards made with both the paper and stamps, click here!

If you upload your creation to SCS or PCP use the keyword FBW40 so we can see your creations!
I was able to get my card made on time this week! I simply can't get enough of butterflies. I just love them!! This is also a milestone card for me, hehe. See I'm a paper collector. When I have beautiful paper like this, I just hate to use it and cover up the design! LOL! Soo, I took the plunge and used it...and I really like it so hopefully I can start using more of my pretty papers!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: Butterfly 4- IBFS, TAC retired GWP on inside
paper: Georiga Pacific, Dovecraft Retro Floral
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Palette Belle Rose
others: prismacolors, OMS,stardust pens, dew drops,
(blogger really hates me some days, sorry about the funky spacing! I gave up!)

Daisies Shy Bear

I am ashamed to say that I have been feeling overwhelmed lately. I've been fortunate to be on a bit of a buying spree but I've got to stop! I have poor stamps that haven't even seen ink yet, that's just cruel.
This cutie is one such stamp! I adore these shy bears and have several that haven't seen ink, gasp!! Time to remedy that!!!
I have also discovered that this shy bear prefers 80's music. How could I discover this you ask? Well, I was working on him and just had "anything" on and well, I threw one of this cutie away because it wasn't working. I about gave up but then put on my fav 80's music and he just started cooperating. So he is a smart bear too and likes good music--although my hubby would disagree about it being good music. LOL!
(No, I haven't gone crazy, just not much adult interaction the last few days, LOL)
I stamped the image twice and cut out two of the flowers and put them on small glue dots, just for some added dimension.
And I also have to say that I {heart} the Dovecraft and Laura Ashley Paper that Susana has. It is good quality and I love that you get 4 sheets of each design. Susana is the only store in the US that has this awesome paper right now--have you ordered some yet?
And while you're ordering, be sure to add some Shimmerz to your order. Love this stuff. I got a new color today, Candle Light. Just love this stuff.

Onto the card~~

Supplies:
card size: 6x6
stamps: Daisies Shy Bear, TAC retired Great Greetings on inside
paper: Georgia Pacific, Dovecraft Retro Floral
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Purple Hydrangea
others: prismacolors, OMS, sizzlit photo corner die, Candle Light Shimmerz

Cake Shy Bear

Oh my! Have you seen these new Shy Bears that Susana is carrying? Way cute!! I can see yet another obsession in my future! LOL!

The plate went way more purple than I expected when I used the glaze pen but I still tried to make it work. Also trying a new card size. Walmart is usually where I buy my envelopes well I didn't notice and grabbed some for 4x6 size cards so that's what I'm trying!

Supplies:
Stamps: Cake Shy Bear , TAC Party Time on inside

Paper: TAC Ultrasmooth white cardstock, TAC Toodle Loo

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Pixie Dust, Palette French Lilac

Others: prismacolors, OMS, crystal stickles, glaze pen, Martha Stewart border punch, TAC Toodle Loo Ribbon

IBFS Fairy Swing

I guess I might as well admit it. I'm truly in love with fairies almost as much as butterflies. They are just so, so, umm, magical. I just adore them. I know that's why I {heart} Susana's Store, because she carries such an awesome variety of them, along with other fun goodies!!

Supplies:
Card size: 4 1/2 x 6
Stamps: IBFS Fairy Swing , TAC Flourishes, Faerie Song Art Believe in Yourself sentiment ,
Paper: TAC ultrasmooth white cardstock, Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl!
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Pink Grapefruit,
Others: copics, prismacolors, Tim Holtz Scattered Straw Distress Stickles , Pink Copic Glitter Pen, stardust pen, waterfall stickles, prima flowers, Doodlebug paper posies, SU ticket corner punch, fruit punch stickles, crystal stickles

Flutter By Wednesday #37

When Susana posted her new I Brake For Stamps fairies, this one just had to come to my house! I just love this...I told Sam she'd make a neat tattoo, if she weren't so detailed. LOL! I must admit she challenged my coloring skills but I think why I love stamping, you can interpret images however you want--no really wrong way to create a card!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fairy with butterfly , TAC retired Dance with your spirit on inside , TAC Curls & Swirls on inside
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black , Palette Belle Rose , Palette Iris
Paper: TAC Ultrasmooth White Cardstock
Others: copics, prismacolors, cotton candy stickles, crystal stickles, Copic clear glitter pen , CM cutting system, nestabilities, floral fantasy cuttlebug embossing folder, sequins, foam tape, Heidi Swapp Jewels,

Thanks for stopping by! Remember to leave a comment with a link if you create a Flutter By card, I'd love to see it!!